Footnotes

Provenance:Sotheby's London, 12 July 2006, lot 101

The additional marks were incised to identify the location of where the boxes were housed within the Palace. In this instance, the three-character incised mark identifies this lot as originally housed in the Anyou Gong palace. Although there are other related cloisonné-enamelled boxes, it is very rare to find an example with a designated hallmark. For a set of box, incense burner, vase, jar and a dish, all with incised Qianlong reign marks and the additional hallmark 'Ningshou Gong Dier Fen' (Palace of Tranquil Longevity) in the Palace Museum, Beijing, see Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum. Enamels 3. Cloisonne in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), Beijing, 2011, pp-32-33, no.5.

The Anyou Gong is located within the Yuanmingyuan and was constructed during the seventh year of the Qianlong Emperor's reign (1742).

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